Vista Boot Pro

[Carl G]

Hi All
Anyone with Vista Boot Pro 3.3.
I run Vista Home Prem , Runs great.
I have vista installed on one hard drive by itself , XP Home on a second
Hard Drive,with 2 other storage partitions.
No Duel boot setup.
I installed Vista Boot Pro on the Vista drive,set vista as default drive and
added xp and drive path.
But I get the duel boot option when I start the pc but XP will never boot ,
always reboots and comes back to the options page , Vista boots as normal.
I must have something set wrong someplace.
Is there any websites where I can look at a setup to figure this out , or
can someone help me out here.
Thanks

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I would use EasyBCD, more reliable and easy to use not to mention
straightforward:
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

 

[AlexB]

It looks as not ALL Vista problems had been resolved in 2007, just a small
bunch has been left left

Happy New Vista Year.

Andre, could you please explain in detail how this EasyBCD works? Have you
or anyone you know and trust used it? Does it work from a separate CD/DVD?
Does it need a floppy disk? Can it run from a USB device? I am at their
webpage now and as usual the explanations are minimal. One can deduce that
the software is award winning, it is great, it can make you happy, it
performs in a snap and can be used by a mentally retarded.

Anything more substantial than that?

Please.

Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

It provides a graphical front end to the BCDEdit Command line that makes it
easy for you to define start-up settings and edit boot entries on the new
Windows Server 2008/Vista boot manager. The awards and recommendations
should be listed on the EasyBCD page.

 

[andy]

Hi All
Anyone with Vista Boot Pro 3.3.
I run Vista Home Prem , Runs great.
I have vista installed on one hard drive by itself , XP Home on a second
Hard Drive,with 2 other storage partitions.
No Duel boot setup.
I installed Vista Boot Pro on the Vista drive,set vista as default drive and
added xp and drive path.
But I get the duel boot option when I start the pc but XP will never boot ,
always reboots and comes back to the options page , Vista boots as normal.
I must have something set wrong someplace.
Is there any websites where I can look at a setup to figure this out , or
can someone help me out here.
Thanks

You have to copy hidden files ntdetect.com, ntldr, and boot.ini from
the root of the XP disk drive to the root of the Vista drive.
Additionally, you have to change all occurrences of rdisk(0) in
boot.ini to rdisk(1).

 

[Carl G]

Hi Andy
Well got the Easy BCD installed and working.
Thank you much.
I have another question , When I had Vista Boot Pro installed , I ended up
loseing my boot files in vista , but got them restored with the install DVD.
My problem is , how do I get rid of the word (recovered) on the boot ini.
I don't know where I can edit the Vista boot ini.
Thanks

 

[andy]

Hi Andy
Well got the Easy BCD installed and working.
Thank you much.
I have another question , When I had Vista Boot Pro installed , I ended up
loseing my boot files in vista , but got them restored with the install DVD.
My problem is , how do I get rid of the word (recovered) on the boot ini.
I don't know where I can edit the Vista boot ini.
Thanks

It's not clear to me what menu you're referring to, but boot.ini is
exclusively a Windows XP file; Vista doesn't use it at all. Typical
way of editing boot.ini is right click on My Computer in XP, selecting
Properties. Then select Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery button.
Select Edit boot.ini button.

 

[Carl G]

Hi Andy
I know how and where to edit the XP boot ini.
But lost on Vista.
When my windows boots up on the dual boot page created by Easy BCD , options
I get read like this ,
Windows Vista T Home Premium ( recovered )
Microsoft Windows
Also if I look in msconfig at the boot tab it reads the same.
How can I edit that to get rid of the word ( recovered ) . Not that it is
hurting anything .
Thanks.

Carl G

 

[Carl G]

And I better apologize for the misspelling of your name , Andre

 

[Carl G]

Hi Andre
I know how and where to edit the XP boot ini.
But lost on Vista.
When my windows boots up on the dual boot page created by Easy BCD ,
options I get read like this ,
Windows Vista T Home Premium ( recovered )
Microsoft Windows
Also if I look in msconfig at the boot tab it reads the same.
How can I edit that to get rid of the word ( recovered ) . Not that it is
hurting anything .
Thanks.

Carl G

 

[Carl G]

WOW
nobody has any insight on my little problem I created ?

 

[Carl G]

Never mind I figured it out myself

 

[John]

Carl,

How did you figure this out. I've got a machine with 3 additional
selections, but I only have one Vista installed! This occured from 1st
attempting an upgrade from XP that went sour (upgrade driver & .Net issues)
and I attempted to recover (hence, "Recovery" - or something like that in the
menu selection). Another is the "Older Windows", and the other is "Recovery
Console", each from the original XP. Finally I have as it defaults too my
"Vista" from a clean install over the XP (which went like a jewel by the way
and I'm very pleased with it too). But I want to remove all the menu choices
except for my only real option to boot into which is the "Vista". BCDEDIT is
not straight forward like a boot.ini file.

I'd certainly appreciate any help!

Thanks,
John

 

[\NachtWacht\]

Carl,

How did you figure this out. I've got a machine with 3 additional
selections, but I only have one Vista installed! This occured from 1st
attempting an upgrade from XP that went sour (upgrade driver & .Net issues)
and I attempted to recover (hence, "Recovery" - or something like that in the
menu selection). Another is the "Older Windows", and the other is "Recovery
Console", each from the original XP. Finally I have as it defaults too my
"Vista" from a clean install over the XP (which went like a jewel by the way
and I'm very pleased with it too). But I want to remove all the menu choices
except for my only real option to boot into which is the "Vista". BCDEDIT is
not straight forward like a boot.ini file.

I'd certainly appreciate any help!

Thanks,
John

Well, you can remove them with Vista Boot Pro.

 

[John]

All,

I was able to clean up the boot menu with the following:
1) Renamed boot.ini to boot.ini.old. This removed the old XP's "Recovery
Console", which was all that was in the boot.ini anyway.
2) Using BCDEDIT, deleted ID for NTLDR, which removed "Old Windows".
3) Also using BCDEDIT deleted ID with the HEX string for "Recovered".

After rebooting, there was no more boot menu, and POST and Splash Screen
went smooth. After logging in, I checked MSCONFIG, and noticed my bootable
Vista OS is the only one listed (before it also had one of those I deleted,
but I don't remember which one) with the default 30 seconds. So apparently
this is ignored now and only used if the bootmenu will have others and / or
the boot.ini is used.

Hope this helps everyone. Also, at the CMD Prompt, BCDEDIT /? showed
everything easier to understand than what I found in more detail from TechNet
or Microsoft searches. It was more straight forward.

John